Expressive Genius

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• Curator: Adina Kamien-Kazhdan
       Co-curator (Toulouse-Lautrec): Efrat Aharon

•  Designer: Tom Direktor

•  Lotte and Walter Floersheimer Gallery for Impressionist Art

• Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Elie Posner and Laura Lachman, 2019​

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Potent expressivity and a frank depiction of the body link two great French artists of the late 19th and early 20th-century: Auguste Rodin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Both dared to explore the human form in its full range of emotion and gesture. Each in his own way, Rodin and the younger Toulouse-Lautrec also epitomized the spirit of modern Paris. Rodin was drawn to high culture, literature, and mythology, while Toulouse-Lautrec focused on popular entertainment and the margins of society.

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